Even if Streep doesn't end up taking on the role of Clinton, there is still a political title on the horizon for the "overrated" Oscar-winning actress. (They're Trump's words, not ours, btw.)

In an epic team-up with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, Streep will star in The Post, a film set to dramatise The Washington Post's publication of the so-called Pentagon Papers, a classified survey that proved the US government publicly lied about key aspects of the Vietnam War.

Tom Hanks has signed on to play legendary newsman and Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, while Meryl will play the paper's publisher Katharine Graham.